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[email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CHARLES M. SHELDON AND THE HEART OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL MOVEMENT By CARA L. BURNIDGE A Thesis submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2009 Copyright © 2009 Cara L. Burnidge All Rights Reserved The members of the Committee approve the Thesis of Cara Burnidge defended on January 16, 2009. __________________________ Amanda Porterfield Professor Directing Thesis __________________________ John Corrigan Committee Member __________________________ Molly Oshatz Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A few sentences of acknowledgement does not begin to sum up my gratitude to those who supported this endeavor. First, I would like to thank Dr. Amanda Porterfield for her patience and encouragement as I thought about and wrote this project. I would also like to thank Dr. Corrigan for his support. His questions and challenges lingered as I read and re-read In His Steps. Likewise, completing this project would have been much more difficult had Dr. Molly Oshatz’s fascination with “theology by other means” not been so infectious. The most understated appreciation, however, belongs to Jennifer Mills and her relentless red pen. Likewise, I cannot fully express my gratitude to Dr.